Stay angry, yes, but why do people think hope and anger are mutually exclusive? Hope is the desire and possible expectation of a good outcome. If you have anger but no hope then you’re kind of useless, because you don’t think we can win and you’ll embrace futility. https://twitter.com/heyshanmurphy/status/1079786798975516673 …
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“Angry” and “Hopeless” are not synonyms.https://twitter.com/XaiaX/status/1079834688032669696 …
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Jason ̆̈ @XaiaXStay angry, yes, but why do people think hope and anger are mutually exclusive? Hope is the desire and possible expectation of a good outcome. If you have anger but no hope then you’re kind of useless, because you don’t think we can win and you’ll embrace futility. https://twitter.com/heyshanmurphy/status/1079786798975516673 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Replying to @XaiaX
tbh i think there are multiple specific emotional processes/postures that people call "hope" and the most lionized one (because of its centrality to organized religion) is a plaintive passivity that begs for a positive outcome using how much a negative outcome would hurt
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this being what gets people mad at the concept of hope, possibly unfairly tarring a considered expectation of the possibility of positive outcome from one's diligent actions, which fits in the same word boxes but i dunno if is really even right to call "hope"
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Replying to @chaosprime
It all sounds like a lot of edgelord bullshit to me. “Oh, you’re so childish and naive that you think things could ever get better? Wow you’re stupid and ignorant, unlike me, the worldly sage who is an embittered nihilist who also does nothing because I assume nothing will work.”
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Replying to @XaiaX
that's probably largely fair in practice, calling for anger does seem to at least suggest action is called for though, what with that being what anger is for
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Is it? As far as I can tell just want people to be angry more than they want people to actually do something. Faith without works.
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could be, wabbit what's the function of that, then. a person who's just angry is a nonspecific threat; you can do some things with those. divert resources by the claim you represent them and/or will placate them, divert resources to suppress or prepare to defend against them
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